Get a Third Party Controller For Your Nintendo Switch

thegamer.com:

Nintendo’s joy-con controllers are notoriously brittle; get a pair in your hands and you’ll understand what I mean. The controllers feel so fragile that you can see them falling apart from just a few months of use. For instance, their analog sticks aren’t the hardiest, and have the tendency to become loose from overuse. Unresponsive buttons are another common issue, as well as the joy-con frequently disconnecting randomly from the console. Then there’s the perpetual joy-con drift phenomenon, which is essentially about the sticks registering movement and sending commands to the console, even when you’re not touching them; one example is having your in-game character persistently walking towards a specific direction. In fact, the issues are so prevalent that Nintendo has offered free joy-con repairs in some regions, even for consoles with lapsed warranties. Such things haven’t been fixed with new iterations of the console either.

Yet, all these issues don’t even take into account just how rough gaming, as a pastime, can be on controllers and keyboards. I predominantly use my Nintendo Switch to play more relaxing, less physically intensive games such as Animal Crossing, Untitled Goose Game, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild—you know, games that don’t usually result in me slamming my fingers repeatedly into the controllers from bursts of adrenaline or sheer frustration—but even these have caused three out of four pairs of joy-con I owned to be damaged from repeated wear and tear. Joy-con are not made to withstand the stress of more intense gaming sessions, and would easily buckle under the hands of players who frequent genres that involve precise movement, or require intense and rapid inputs, such as first-person